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In this seminar we will analyze the geological evidence for the cause of three extinctions that occurred over the past 300 million years. Our focus will be on extinction periods at the end of the Permian, the Cretaceous and the Pleistocene, when large numbers of species died out over relatively short periods of time. We will learn how earth scientists reconstruct past environments from the geologic record, how fast these extinctions really occurred, and investigate some of the causes of extinction that have been proposed in the past. 1.00 units, Seminar
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No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
The United States is probably the most religiously diverse country in the world--which is an artifact of the powerful attraction America has exercised on migrants from all over the globe. This link between ethnic identity and religion is not new in this country. Since colonial times, there has been a close but dynamic relationship between ethnicity and religion . The historian Martin Marty has even gone so far as to argue that ethnicity is the skeleton of religion in the United States. This first - year seminar will examine the evolving relationship between religion, ethnicity, and immigration in American society and culture, in a nation where religion is both a force for social unity and a shelter for the preservation of the identity and values of immigrant groups. The seminar will examine both the history of immigrant groups that helped to establish religious diversity in the United States--Judaism, Catholicism, and Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and the experience of millions of adherents of "world religions" that did not have many practitioners in the United States before immigration laws shifted in the mid-1960s--Islam, Hinduism, and forms of Christianity from around the world. The experience and trajectory of immigrant religious groups has been anything but standard, so the course will give special attention to recent developments in three American cities: Chicago, Houston, and Los Angeles where many new religious groups are concentrated. The course will require students to read a wide variety of literature, including history, sociological, and anthropological works based on field work, works of literature, films, and memoirs. One basic text will be the historian Laurence Moores' Religious Outsiders and the Making of Americans. Students will also be required to do some fieldwork, visiting immigrant religious groups in the Hartford area to prepare brief studies. Andrew Walsh is visiting assistant professor of religion at Trinity. Since 1997, he has been associate director of the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at the College. A graduate of Trinity College (1979), he also holds degrees from Yale Divinity School and Harvard University, where he trained as a historian of religion in America and in urban history. At the moment, he is at work on a book on Orthodox Christianity in the United States, and is co-editor of a nine volume series of books that examines the mutual relationship of religion and public life in the various regions of the United States 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
Why are we here Because we don't mean squat. We are second rate citizens. What about all the other people whose kids don't have to fight the war Let's face it boys, we're the hicks, the spics and the niggers. That's why we're here." ----Pvt. Danny Purcell, Tour of Duty, CBS, 1987 What is the reality of race and class in the United States today Does the election of a black president mean we are now in a post-racial America Or are we still stratified by race and class in a way that exemplifies George Orwell's cynical dictum, "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others" What roles do race and class play at an elite liberal arts college This seminar will be devoted to a careful analysis of questions on race and class in America and at Trinity College. No discussion of these topics can be divorced from the past, and so we will ground our discussion in the history of race and class issues. We will also consider many contemporary events, including the Trinity Campus Climate Report of 2007 and the events leading up to it. The heart of the seminar will be the close reading of a variety of texts, including music and film, in-class discussions and analysis, and a series of papers. Because of the film component, there will be an extra class period in order to view and discuss the films. This seminar will, obviously, discuss a number emotionally charged issues and it will not shy away from controversy and open dispute. Students should be prepared to challenge one another and to accept that their own views are also subject to critical scrutiny. Biography: David Cruz-Uribe, SFO, is a professor of mathematics and a lay brother in the Secular Franciscan Order. He grew up in a blue-collar mill town, but now finds himself comfortably middle-class. He is also a Mexican-American, but given the complex and contextual nature of his ethnic identity, he often describes himself by saying that he is "white on even days and colored on o 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
"There is no greater sorrow on earth than the loss of one's native land." Euripides wrote these words in 431 B.C. and throughout the centuries, they have accompanied numerous expatriates as virtually no group has been spared the experience of exile at some point in their history. Even though exile typically implies a physical banishment, it is often extended metaphorically to the human condition per se: being "exiled" means being an outsider, marginalized, at odds with society, the "Other". Whereas exile conjures images of solitary fates, migration refers to large groups of uprooted people, frequently political refugees, who are forced to move from place to place and whose uncertainties and feelings of isolation are part of a shared story of migrancy. This seminar explores various discourses of "otherness" - modernist, (post)colonial, postmodern. We will read a number of literary works that center on the multidimensional experience of exile and that give a voice to those whom exile and migration have rendered voiceless. Students enrolled in this seminar will participate in the international Exile Studies Conference held at Trinity in September. Johannes Evelein is an Associate Professor of Modern Languages and a native of the Netherlands. He studied in the Netherlands, Norway, Germany and the United States and he teaches German language and literature. Following Dutch tradition, he bikes to work rain or shine. 1.00 units, Seminar
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No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Seminar
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No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Seminar
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5.00 Credits
Heinrich Harrer's Seven Years in Tibet, John Avedon's In Exile from the Land of the Snow, and David Breashears film on the ill-fated Everest expeditions of 1996 are contributions to a large corpus of works related to Tibet and Nepal built around the experiences of Western adventurers, amateur religious investigators, and mountain climbers. The Himalayan rim exists in the American imagination as a set of dramatic pictures and impressions constructed from such sources. We equate the Himalayas with forbidding landscapes, exotic forms of Buddhism, and harrowing ascents of Mount Everest. However, only a fragment of the historical and cultural experience of this complex region is captured in its record as conveyed by the foreign visitors who sought adventure or the exotic in the lands of this imposing mountain chain. Throughout their history, the Himalayan highlands were a fascinating area of interaction between peoples and cultures. In their own right, these remote lands were extraordinarily creative as they produced great religious, artistic, and philosophical traditions that profoundly influenced the entire south and east Asian world. Unlike India or China, the small states of the Himalayas escaped colonial administration and developed in an idiosyncratic manner that strongly influences the life and mores of this part of the world today. This seminar will focus on the ethnographic map of the Himalayan rim and introduce the peoples, the Tibetan, Newar, Gurung, Magar, Tharu, Limbu, Sherpa, and Lepcha among others, who produced its distinctive cultures. An optional trek to Nepal with an attached .5 credit independent study unit is likely to be offered to interested members of the seminar during the inter-term (December 2007 to January 2008). Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class. 1.00 units, Seminar
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